#selves

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves. ↗

— Martha Beck

#choice #feels #giving #may #money

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#because #happen #i #like #lot

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#contained #deity #infinite #ourselves #space

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#become #know #love #never #ourselves

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#day #done #every #every day #harem

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#balk #book #certainly #children #easier

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#forward #good #hard #i #i think

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#call #door #drum #free #hotel

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#around #baggage #being #could #devote

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations. ↗

— Peter Berg

#became #being #boxing #characters #cop